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    • THE 10BTHERI STAR SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3,1S49.
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      TEE CHEAPEST OITIOX CTK PClUfSZD . Trice Is . 6 d ., A ntw ana elegant edition , nith Steel Plats of th « Author , of PAIHE'S POLITICAL WORKS . T 0 LS . I . TO IT .. SEATLT BOUKD , Trice Ss . Gd . each , THE ' L 1 B 0 UIER' MAGAZINE . NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS . Any imperfect copies of the " Labocrf . k" Magaziiw liiusr be completed forthwith : all the back numbers arc no w on sale ; but it will not 1 * practicable to jerfect copies unless imperiections are called for at once .

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      IT IS THE CAUSE ! IT IS THE CAUSE !! ST ANDARD THEATRE , F :: cins tlie Eastern Counties Railway Station , Kivrctlhcli . * Undt-r the patronage , of the Executive Committee , who will be present on the occasion , and in aid of the Funds , A BENEFIT will be taken it the above house , on the even" ^ WEDNESDAY , FEBRUARY 7 th , 1 S 49 , v * en one of the bi-st companies in London will render their aid . and tlie acknowledged best jantomiine ever produced in ' London wlil be perii'rmed by inimitable artists . The performance will c-. insist of a Xew Drama , of deep sod intense interest , entitled

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      UXDEIl ROYAL PATllOXAGE . PERPECT HtEEDOM FROM COUGH , In Ten Minutes after use , and a rapid Cure of Asthma and Consumption , aud ail Disorders of the Breath . and Lunss , is insured by DR . LOCOCK'S TULMOXIC WAFERS . The truly wonderful lowers of this remedy have called forth testimonials from all ranks of society , in all quarters of the world . The following have been just received : — AXOTHER CURE OF SEVEN YEARS *

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      " Tnou-sroUiT not kill v THE TOOTING TRAGEDY . A PUBLI € MEETING S will be held E BJt « EW' 3 » -fi-2 = t 0 ^ fhe ' ffen ? Gentlemen are expected to attend : > fesrs 6 i Hakset , W . Dixos , T . Clabk , P . M'GiUTir , and S . Kidd . Admission to the Body of the Hall , Id . ; Gallery , 3 d . if B . _ EarSes holding Monies or Tickets for tlie Soirte held ' " in John-street , on Monday , tlie - - ' » th ult ., will forward the same to Mr . Clark , Lahd Office , and they will oblige the'Committee .

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      TIIE FilEXCII REPUBLIC . * DEMOCRATIC ~ FESTIVAL , to consist xi . < rf Soiree and Ball , in commemoration of THE FRENCH REVOLUTION of February , 1848 , at the Literary and Scientific Institution , John-street , Tottenham-court-road , on 5 Iond . iv , February 26 th , 1819 . Several well-known advocates of Democratic principles will address tlie meeting . Tea on the table at Six o ' clock , and Dancing at Ten oV-lock . Tickets admitting to Tea and Ball—Double , 2 s . < kl Single ditto , Is . Gd . Tickets to the Ball—Double , Is . Cd . ; Single , Is . Tickets to be had at the Northern Star Office ; of Mr . Truclove . next door to the Institution ; Mr . Fennell , 10 , Lollys-buildings , Whitecross-street ; Mr . Kmnvlcs , Globe aud Friends , Morgan-street , Commercial-road-east ; Mr . Sde , 5 , Pepjter-street , Union-street , Borough ; Mr . Keen , 7 , Poplar-row , Jfew Kent-road ; Mr . Milne , 1 , Union-street , Btrkeley-square ; Mr . Grassbv , 8 , Xoah ' s Ark-court , Stangate , Lambeth ; Mr . Parkes . , Little Windmill-street , Stcho ; Mr . Siiiimg , Little Chanel-street , Grav ' s-inn-lane .

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      J . Sweet acknowledges the receipt of the following sums for Mrs . M'DocALi , viz .: —Mr . Chipindale , fid : Mr . North , Stl ; Mr . Knott . 3 d ; Mr . Smith , 3 d ; Mr . Kirk , Id ; Mr . I . igi ^ t , Ud ; Mrs . Jovnes , 2 d For General Defesok Krxn : —Mr . Hunt . Cd Dr . M'Douail , for Writ of Error : —Mr . Hackitt . 2 d ; Mr . Buxtou , Gd ; Mr . Cunt , 2 s « d ; Mr . Brown . 3 d ; Mr . Thornton , 4 s 6 d ; Mr . Hicklinpr . Is "d : Collected at PainVs Supper , 4 s fld . Ihe Victim Fcxd . — John Arnott , Corners Town , acknowledges the receipt of the following in aid of the said fund : —From a Friend , Twelve Volumes of the Labourer ( Bound ); Mr . Notts . Smith London Hall , Two Gold Pins and a Gold Locket ; Mr . Dice , per Mr . W . Allnutt , " Young's Sight Thoughts , " " Burke on the Sublime and Beautiful , " Twelve Splendid Engravings , aud » large Map of North America ; Mr . Ambrose Hurst , "Haslam ' s

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      TO AGENTS . Many of our agents complain of the ? ' badness of the times , " instead of remitting the balance of their accounts . Those complaints are not payable to our paper-maters and pr inters . We therefore inform all such agents that we shall discontinue the supply , and hand over their accounts to our solicitor , if not immediately discharged .

      The 10btheri Star Saturday, February 3,1s49.

      THE 10 BTHERI STAR SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 3 , 1 S 49 .

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      THE SESSION OF 1849 . The secoiid Session of the Whig Parliament has commenced its sittings . We are all too familiar with their dreary length , and unproductive character , last year , to need that any review should be now given ; hut , with their remembrance fresh in our memory , it is im p ossible to help asking the questions : " Is the

      Session just begun , likely to end more usefully and beneficially than the last ? Shall we have another eight months of word-mongering of crude , ill-digested measures , hastil y prepared , to be as hastily withdrawn—of long , floundering debates about questions which were never intended to be brought to any practical conclusion—a Session , in short , made up of speeches , and not acts—as far as acts were necessary for the public welfare V

      The anticipatory reply to those questions can only be given by looking at the changes that have taken place in the Constitution of the Government in the House , and in public opinion , since Parliament last assembled . In the Government , the only change Avcknow of , is that of Sir T . Baking , for the deceased Lord Auckland , as head of the Admiralty ; and the new Minister is , certainly , not so

      favourably known to the country , by his past official career , as to lead us to hope for any material change in the Ministerial policy , in consequence of his accession to the Cabinet . In fact , the party virtually cast a slight upon him when they put Sir Charles Wood in his former office , and if they could have got Sir James Graham to have accepted the office , the ex-Wliisr Cha > 'cellor of the Exchequer

      would never have been elevated to his present position . As far as the Ministry , therefore , are concerned , it is evident that we have to deal with the old materials . We shall have the same coquetting with parties—the same playing fast and loose to suit the exigencies of the moment —the same want of fixed principles , or clear and definite plans , which characterised them last year . Lord J . Russell has formall y proclaimed the theory of Ministerial

      non-responsibility . In his opinion , the Constitution does not require that the Premier and his subordinates should originate and conduct the business of Parliament . Everybody is free to do what is rig ht in his own eyes , and the whole duty of Ministers is to take their salaries , and keep tilings as quiet as they can , with the chanco of settling as much of the national business as they can in the general scramble . From this quarter , therefore , there is no great hope , as for as the men who compose the Ministry are personally concerned .

      But when we look at the House of Commons , and at public opinion , the case is very different from what it was last year . Although there is no marked change in the materieZ of the House , its component parts are better organised . The Liberal party have what is a sine qua non to any vigorous policy—a definite principle and plan upon which to work . They are backed by a large portion of the Press , and by a majority of the electoral classes out of doors ; and the demand for a reduction in the National Expenditure , is one so directly identified with that sensitive part of every man —the breeches pocket—that it is certain to exercise groat influence within , as well as out of the House .

      Unmistakeahle signs of the power of this movement , have already exhibited themselves . The Ministerial programme delivered by her

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      - Majesty on Thursday , contains a distinct and mark

      amendment , and the abrogation or modification of the Navigation Laws , These may be termed the remedial measures of the Cabinet . For poor unhappy , prostrate , famine and poverty-stricken Ireland , we are again to have a repetition and a continuance of that coercive policy which Lord John and the present Cabinet came into office , pledged to put down for ever . One would have thought that emigration , destitution , disease , and death , had been potent enough to have thinned the country , or broken the spirits of the people quite enough , to have enabled a liberal Ministry to dispense with such a tyrannical and unconstitutional

      mode of government . It appears not . " Shadows the soul of Richard do appal . " With the leaders of Young Ireland in prison or in exile ; with the population decimated by clearances , emigration and disease , and the still farther prostration caused by another failure of the potato crop in Ireland ; even yet the Whigs dare not let the people who remain in that country , enjoy the constitutional liberty of meeting , and the free expression of their thoughts . Ireland and Vienna arc governed upon the same princip le , for tho same cause . The Government oppress the people and the people hate the Government . The voice of the last must bo stifled , in order that the first may enjoy the proper degree of Ministerial

      repose . With respect to the Navigation Laws , the language in which reference is made to them is so very vague , that we can only regard the introduction of the subject at all as a repetition of the party ruse , by which the two sections of the Conservative party were last year prevented from , forming a junction , and defeating the Whigs . Time will show whether it will prove equally successful this .

      With respect to the Poor Law in Ireland , that is a large and-important question , involving so many considerations , that we shall leave all comment upon it until we see what Ministers propose ; and as to reductions in the Estimates , these—as we have already saidwill be large or small , in proportion to the earnestness and power of the Cobdcn party . With Foreign Affairs we do not meddle in this place . But as we looked at the numerous aud imposing display of Foreign Ministers , and their Attaches , and thought of the changes which since last February had swept over the Continent , we could not help thinking that every one of them would feel the deepened and

      emphatic tone with which the Queen asserted her " pride and thankfulness in adverting to the loyal spirit of her people . " We dare to tell her Majesty , in the name of the working millions of this great empire , that all they ask is , that "the fabric of the Constitution " shall be truly and really " founded upon the principles of " Freedom and of Justice , " and that if it is so , she will have no more Milling coadjutors " in upholding that fabric , " than those whose labours reared the magnificent Hall in which she inaugurated the new session of Parliament , and fabricated the rich and dazzling robes of those who thronged around her on the first of February .

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      COLONEL THOMPSON AND HIS CONSTITUENTS . Colonel Thompson has been paying his Constituents a visit , and his Constituents—at least , the majority of them—have been paying the Colonel in that kind of coin called by sailors " monkey ' s allowance , " which , we believe , defined by those who arc in the habit of employing the expression , means " more kicks than halfpence . " The Colonel was received very coldly by the working men , and , when speaking of Ireland and the Chartist agitation , he was interrupted by very audible expressions of < lisapprobation . At the conclusion of his address he was asked why he voted for the Irish Coercion Bill . This was the Colonel ' s answer : —

      " There was no choice for a man like him but to say , ' I am for rebellion in arms , ' or , ' I am not for it . ' He could not hesitate which course to adopt , and he rejoiced that the Government had power to put them down without greater mischief . " Now , without engaging in any attempt to justify the Irish affair—which never amounted to even the ghost of a rebellion—we must ask the Colonel , whether he has always been so squeamish in his notions concerning revolt "in aims" against the constituted authorities ? It strikes us that tho Colonel has , before now , written and spoken a , good deal in praise of the " rebels" who cut off the head of Charles I . We dare be sworn , that in his "hot youth , when George the Third was

      king , " the Colonel celebrated the 30 th of January * over a calPs head dinner , served up with Whig sauce . If we mistake not , he , some years ago , declared himself in the House of Commons " a , Republican under compact . " Even in his speech at Bradford , he seems to have spoken favourably of the French " rebellion in arms" against Louis Philippe . We imagine , then , that we may fairly set down the Colonel as favourable to rebellions under justifiable circumstances . Whether the past history , aud present condition of Ireland , would justify rebellion , it is not our place to determine . Suffice it to say , that the history of that unhappy land is one unbroken record of unparalleled misgovernment .

      The Colonel was asked , why he voted against—or , as another report has it , wh y he refused to support the motion for—the liberation of Frost , Williams , and Jones ? He answered , — " That Government was not likely to grant a petition presented at the poiut of a pike , because the concession would imply a defeat . " This is a shabby apology for the violation of a pledge given by him to the Bradford Chartists at the time of his election , to the effect that he would do his best to obtain

      the liberation of the Welsh victims . When was there a petition presented in then favour on the point of a pike ? Even supposing that he uses the pike figuratively , we def y him to point to facts which would justif y his use of such an expression . The fact is , Colonel Thompson has violated his pledge , and his self-impalement on the " point of a p ike" will not save him—indeed , has not saved him—

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      from the contempt of a majority of his constituents . ,, 11 L The Colonel was asked , why he wrote a letter to the Reform Club of Bradford , recommending the middle classes to arm and raise a volunteer corps of forty thousand men , that the G overnment might be enabled to send the regular troops to Ireland , to cut down the stfrving Irish ? He answered , " When people will fight , everybody ought to get up and put them down . " Very good . Being a Colonel the M Pfor Bradford will , of course , nglit , ll —

      . ho is bidden by his " pastors and masters ; therefore , everybody ought to put him down . Let us ask the Colonel whether , when Governments will fight against the people , everybody ought not to get up and put them down i But who were the Bourg eois Guard—the 40 , 000 men in buckram— " to put down ? " Why , not the Irish , but the English working men who sympathised with their Irish brethren . In fact , Golonel Thompson desired to establish a bourgeois Guard to keep down the Chartists by " physical force . "

      On a motion being made for a vote of thanks to the Colonel , the Chartists very properly proposed an amendment refusing the thanks : the amendment was carried by ten to one , Vut mark the conduct of the shameless Press-gang . The " Morning Chronicle" of Wednesday , came out with a report of tho meeting in which it was stated that the original motion was carried by a large majority . It is true that the Whig chairman declared the amendment lost , but the people were

      so enraged at his unfairness , that when a vote of thanks was moved to him , they would not allow- it to be put to the meeting . _ The Chartists concluded by making a collection at the door for the families of the Whig victims . The sum obtained was collected from the working men only , the Financial Reformers , being economically inclined , of course gavenothing . Colonel Thompson ' s popularity in Bradford , never very great , has fallen below zero . He had great difficulty to get a seat , he may have equal difficulty to keep it at the next election .

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      THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC . In the ancient world no foreign power dared to lay violent hands on a citizen of the lloman Republic . Cromwell declared that he would make the name of Englishman as respected throughout the world as had been the name of Roman ; aud he made good , his declaration . In Cromwell ' s time , England was respected by all nations , and her sons were safe in every land . It is not so now ; bear witness the alleged military MURDER of Dr . Becher , an Englishman , at Vienna , by order of the brigand Winmschgratz . We expect this matter will ho taken up by some member or members of the House of Commons ; if not the stimulus of petitions must be tried , demanding inquiry .

      The American Government has not forgotten the traditions of Cromwell , and has lately given evidence that it will not allow the sacrifice of American citizens by any foreign power , not even by the big British Government . In tho time of " tho troubles" in Ireland , last year , two American citizens were arrested in that country , under the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act . Subsequently , upon the strong representation ' s of the American Government , those prisoners were let out of confinement .

      The "New York Nation" o £ January the Gth , contained extracts from the correspondence on this subject , between the two Governments . It appears that the American House of Representatives haying passed a resolution on the 11 th of December , requesting tho President to inform them " whether he had received an information that American Citizens have bee imprisoned oy avv « sted \> y British Authoritio in Ireland , " in compliance with that resolution he laid before them copies of the correspond-. QnccAvhich passed between Mr . Bancroft , Lord Palmerstox , and the Secretaries of State at Washington . The first letter of importance is from Mr . Toucey , Acting Secretary of State in Mr . Buchanan ' s absence , calling the attention of Mr . Bancroft to " tho condition of those American citizens who have been

      arrested and held for trial under charge of sedition or treason , " stating that the department at Washington had no official knowledge of arrests , but presumed , from the reports in the public journals that such arrests had heeu made . Mr . Toucey proceeds : — If upon inquiry , it shall be ascertained that any such arrests have occurred , it will be the right and duty of the government to sec that the persons arrested have the full benefit uf legal defence ; and it may be , and in tlic present instance is , its duty also , to interpose its good offices in their behalf beyond the strict limits of securing for them a full and fair trial .

      It is the wish of tlie President , and he instructs you to urge upon the British Government the adoption of a magnanimous and merciful course towards those men who have been implicated in the liite'distuvbances in Ireland . The calamities which have recently befallen her starving population by the dispensation of Providence , in the destruction of her crops ; the close bonds of sympathy between them and a large class who have removed and established themselves permanently in America ; the national sympathy which has been extensively manifested in acts of charity and good will towards the Irish people , and the unsettled state ot" so large a portion of the civilised world , constitute a series of exciting causes , so powerful as to render it hardly possible that niiiiitei-fcTeiice or outbreak to some extent should not have taken place .

      The active sympathy expressed in this extract , -will be appreciated in Ireland . The reproof conveyed to the British Government , in the intimidation that an outbreak in Ireland was an event which had been expected in America , must have been galling to Lord Palmekstojt and his colleagues . Previous to the receipt of the above communication , Mr . Bancroft had demanded that the persons arrested should be set at liberty . Lord Palmehston replied , " that authentic

      information reached her Majesty ' s government and the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland , as well from the United ( States as other quarters , showing Mr . Bekgkjv was concerned in treasonable practices in connexion with the late attempted outbreak , " &c . ; and with regard to Mr . Ryan , " the Lord Lieutenant had no doubt of his being guilty of the charges brought against him , " adding : " It has also been shown , to tho satisfaction of the Lord Lieutenant , that Mr . Ryan was a subject of her Majesty . "

      Mr . Bancroft , in reply , states , that the claim of Great Britain to perpetual allegiance would not be submitted to by his Government , and asks the opinion of Mr . Buchanan , the Secretary of State . That gentleman , in his reply , asserts that " Treason cannot be committed by a citizen of the United States against a foreign Government , " and concludes with this emphatic remark— "I need scarcely add , that whenever the occasion may require it , you will resist the British doctrine of perpetual allegiance , and maintain the American principle that British native-born subjects , after they have been naturalised under our laws , are , to all intents and purposes , as much American citizens , and entitled to the same degree of protection , as though they had been born in lie United States . "

      On receipt of these instructions , Mr Ban-Croft , in an official letter to Lord Palmersxon , demanded the release of Messrs . Ryan and Bergen , denying the right of England to hold an American citizen- amenable to English law , for having expressed an opinion against her policy . This letter had the eifect of obtaining the release of the two gentlemen from Newgate prison , on condition of leaving the country within three weeks . The last letter of the series was addressed by Mr . Buchanan to Mr . Bancroft , approving of his persevering efforts to obtain tho release of the prisoners , and , after condemning the order SSUoll by tlie British Government on the 18 th of August , concludes by giving Mr . Bancroft his instructions in these words : —

      Tlie President lias , therefore , directed me to instruct VOU tO protest , in the most solemn and earnest manner which official propriety will warrant , against the orders of the

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      : » ffl ^ S \ £ SS ?^ S ised citizens . The liberation of Messr 8 .. Bhm « « ndl «> n without trial-the only American t *« ' » Vf department to have been imprisoned "n ^^^ Xf evidence that no reasonable cause existed for these ordcis The for ... and language of this larotast With } te flUSWt despatch as a general guide , is submitted altogether to jour own discretion . How contemptible must Lord PalmerSTON have looked when reading a dispatch of this kind , containing not one word of diplomatic humbug , but plain truth — the language of ri g ht , with the consciousness that there was the necessary might to back it . God save ' the American Republic ! Glory to the Commonwealth of Jefferson and " Washington ! i n- il ni -

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      THE PORTRAIT OF SMITH O'BRIEN Is sent to Mr . Robinson , 11 , Greenside-street Edinburgh , for our agents in Edinburgh , Allo . a Alva , Perth , and Ifawick . To Mr . Love , 5 , Nelson-street , Glasgow , for that city , Hamilton , Falkirk , Arbroath , Paisley , Greenock , Kilmarnock , and Aberdeen . To Mr . Lowry , Broad Guards , for Carlisle , Wigton , and Dalston . To Mr . Turnbull , Side , for Newcastle , Chcstcrlo-strcet , Cassop Colliery , Sealiam Harbour , Durham , "Winirate Grange , Coxhoe , Jarrow , Shotlcy Bridge , Trumlon , Crook , and Old Shildon . To Mr Wilson , Bishop-street , for Stockton , Sunderland , Bishopwearmouth , Darlington , and South Shields . „ , , To Mr . Roberts , Peter-gate , for Wk , and Scarborough . . . » , , „

      To Mr . Cook , Meadow-lane , for Leeds , Brainhope , WoodUoii . se , Birstal , Millbridge , lleckmoml wike , Cleckheaton , Barnsley , Wakcfield , Dcwsbury , Batlcy , and Batlcy Carr . To Air . Cooke , Vicar-lane , for Bradford , Bingley , Keighly , and Thornton . ' To Mr . Lord , North-gate , for Halifax , Rippondon , Elland , and Hebden Bridge . To Mr . Clayton , 10 , Kirkgatc , for Iluddersfield , Bradley , Dalton , Almondbury , Clayton West , Honlcy , Ilolmfirth , and Hey Gap . To Mr . Barraclough , 40 , Far-gate , tor bhcmcld , and Rotherham . To Mr . Hoy wood , 58 , Oldliam-strcet , Manchester , for Lancashire , and Cheshire . To Mr . J . Sweet , Goose-gate , for Nottingham , Carrington , New Radford , Newark and ltctford . To Mr . G . Guest , Bull-street , for Birmingham , and Oldburv .

      To Mr . Roberts , James-lane , for Derby , Ironville , Sutton-in-Aslifield , and Belpcr . To Mr . Barrow , 7 , Lower Sandaere-street , foi Leicestershire . To Mr . Beddow , Bridge-street , for Merthyi Tydvil , Newport , and Abergavenny . To Mr . Bushby , for Grantham , Horncastlc , Market Rnsen , Gainsbro' and Lincoln . To Mr , Hosier , Much Park-street , for Coventry , and lvfrldcrininster . Those agents in Northamptonshire , Worcestershire , Sussex , Berks , Essex , Devonshire , Norfolk , Dorsetshire , and other southern counties , who have not received the portrait , must say how their parcels must be forwarded . Agents having weekly book parcels , and who have written to us , will find their instructions have been attended to .

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      R E CEIPTS O F THE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY . For the Week E . vdijjg Thursday , February 1 , 1849 . SHARES . £ s . d . £ f . d . Easington Lane 0 2 0 Hanloy .. 2 ' 2 0 Royston , Camp 1 10 8 Burslem .. 5 0 2 Bradford ( Vork ) 0 12 0 Sleaford .. 0 13 ( i Cripplogate .. 2 1 C G Chelsea , Reid .. 16 0 Mansfield , Walker 2 0 0 John Heffernan 0 3 0 Lnndeniean .. 139 0 Robert Maul . 0 1 * S Merthyp , Morgan 1 17 0 Robert Pattison 0 10 Tewkcsbury .. 0 9 0 Richard Griffiths 0 11 0

      Norwich .. 2 0 0 Alex . Christie .. 0 5 0 Nottingham , Joseph Guilford 0 7 C Sweet .. 1 5 i Henry Guilford 0 7 ( i Ellam ? , Marsdcn 1 19 C Charles Mowl .. 0 ' J 0 Haworth .. 0 15 0 Leonard Ann-Howsell .. 0 5 10 strong .. 0 4 0 Hyde .. 5 0 0 John M 'Neil .. 0 10 Rotherham .. 2 0 0 John Vijrurs .. 0 16 Worcester .. 9 7 8 James Cuttriss 0 5 0 Acvrington .. 18 1 ) . Hull .. .. a 0 U £ 50 1 5 Mountain .. 0 8 0 ¦ EXPENSE FUND .

      Thomas Bungay 0 2 G Haworth .. 0 4 0 Richard Griffith 0 2 6 Accrington .. 0 1 S Henry Guilford 0 2 0 Hanley .. 0 2 0 Cripplcgato .. 0 3 0 Sleaford .. 0 18 0 Tetvkeslmry .. 0 1 G Nottingham , £ 2 0 2 Swett .. 0 3 0 ' ' ¦ TOTALS . Land Fund ... ... ... ... 50 1 5 Expense ditto ... ... ... 2 0 2 Bonus ditto ... ... ... 94 2 S Loan ditto 2 1 "> 0 Transfers 0 9 0 Rules ... ... ... ... 0 0 4 £ U 9 8 7 Erratum . —Last week , Preston should have been as follows : —Land , Sri 2 s . ; Loan , lls . ; Executive , us . W . Dixox , G . Doylk , T . Clark , Cor . Sec . P . M'GuAur , Fin . ficc .

      EXECUTIVE FUND . Per S . Ktod . —Peterborough . E . A . Scholey , 5 s Per Land Office . —Mountain , Ss . NEW YEAR ' S GIFT . Per S . K . YDD . —Bilston , J . Hammersley , 8 s . ; Petcrtorougli , K . A . Scholey , " s . fld . ; a few Chartists . Ossctt , Wakeficld , per J . Archer , lls . 8 d . DEFENCE FUND . Per - \ Y . Rideb . —Kirkaldy , per A . Beattie , is . ; ditto a few Chartists , per J . Lessels , Sd . ; Morton Colliery , per J . Roxby , 2 s . 7 d . ; Nottingham , per J . Sweet , Gd . ; Hull , proceeds ot a Lecture by Mrs . Theobald , per G . Burnett SSs Uelford , per J . JKobson , 3 s , 5 d . ; lHrminRham , E . O'Donneil ' Js . ; KmiiinghRin , People's IJsiH , per IV . If . JRudhall 3 « ' Mrs . Hannah Gittins , West Branwich , Gd . ' ""'' VICTIM FUND . Per Land Office—James Stephens , Cil . ; Mr . TVriVlit Is . ; Globe and friends , 3 s . ; Commercial Hull , 3 s . W d ' Sleaford . 2 s .

      FOR WIVES AND FAMILIES OF VICTIMS . Per VT . Uidkr . —T . Jennings , Siljle , Hedingliam , 4 s . fid . T . 'WotKl , Tivcrton , overpaid Star account , 6 ( 3 . m ' douALL ' s case-for writ of error . Ter W . IliDEK . —Nottingham , per J . Sweet , 14 s . ; P . ' \ Y . B London , Gd . ; Old Mavrtiel , Abctdoen , per i . Thomson , Is . Kettering , per T . Koughton , 5 s . 7 d . Per Land Office ' —Mr . Wright , Is . NATIONAL VICTIM AND DEFENCE FUND . Tcr Jso . Arsott . —* Swindon , £ 1 Cs . 2 d . ; Durham « cv Cummins , 3 s . 4 d . ; Brass-side , per ditto , If . 2 d . : . Ship Inn IHviningham , per John Newhouse , £ 1 lus . ; Mr . Jus . Walsh ' Manchester , jier ditto , 5 s . ; Halifax , jjcr U . Ifiiichcliftt as Iliiunnh Gittins , Wost Bvomwieli , Gd . Mi \ 1 U < W , as per Star , 5 s . I'd , ; Proceeds of Mr . Cooper ' s Lectures at the In-Btitution , John-street , £ 2 Is . ' . 'd . ; Committee of the Institution , John-street , £ 1 ; Limehouse , per ltoiloy , ' 2 s .. t ! d . Hoxton Locality , per Chambers , Ss . ; Ernest * Jones Locality , jut Ilarroj ) , 46 . od . ; Cripplegate Locality , per Uvown , is . Id .

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      * This sum lias been acknowledged as for the Defence Fund .

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      CENTRAL CRIMINAL C O URT . Post Office Robwery . —On Wednesday , "William George Millner , 23 , Wstman , was indicted for stealing a letter , containing a key and other articles , the property of the Postmaster-General . — Mr . Clarkson and Mr . Bodkin conducted tlie prosecution . — The circumstances of this case were of rather ; i singular character . It appeared that on tho 9 th of September a lady named Vavasour posted a letter in Watling-street , addressed to her sister , Miss Elizabeth Mottatt , at the Missionschool , Walthamstovr . This letter contained a

      key , and another letter addressed to . 1 Miss Kidd , Nothing was heard of tills letter until the 18 th of the same month , when the governess of the school received the envelope and the key which had been bent and crushed , and there was also a slip of paper , on which was written — "My name is Wide-awako-Smith . I thought there was gold , Mann . I sent the letters to the oflice . I only get 12 s . a week , and I shall thieve when I can , Marm , and you can't help yourself " Mr Robert Smith , one of the supefintendinir

      presidents at tho Post Office , deposed that the prisoner had been employed for three years in the Stratford district as an auxiliary letter-carrier and his wages were 12 s . per week , but he was " only engaged from seven in the momin ^ till twelve It frequently happened that letters addressed to Walthamstowwere mis-sorted to StwS ford , and the prisoner would thus have had an opportunity of getting the letter in question £ E 5 « W / ia

      , 0 ,. l t ke , ? W > y , and I thought it was goUU lien I opened the letter . I have fcen in the ? , , (¦ ? i ° T yeai / > < Iind Wils ^ e st for some time , wig 1 Shall not be so no more for 12 s . a week . I nave had a little money , and means to get more . I am getting a good deal better oft—it wakes up my wagee—sometimes 22 s , a week , and sometimes $ 2 s .,

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      ZS 5 ZSSSS = SSZ ££ S = £ - vou know , Hobby Smith . ' ; Another paper was to tho following effect : —" All the letters that are mis-sent to n " v . office I burn except there is money in them . I will stive you all the trouble I can . I will take other men ' s letters and burn them in the fire You never can catch me . I take them home before I break the seals , and they are not five minutes in m place before I burn them . Tire I fire ! fire ! fire ! fire ! " A third paper was as follows ';__« I think I can learn you a new game . "When I collect I look out for money letters , and calves vou know , Hobby Smith . ' ; Another paper was to

      work on in that way . We are not all Essex , Hftbbv You may lay traps , but you cannot catch me Fire tells no talcs . 12 s . a week ! " Upon " other paper there was written :- " I cannot come ?? KM this week , but the auxi ianes want more money I also wish to let you know that 1 am KSFof mo ; 1 C y myself . This is one of my comiil-iints Fire tells no tales . Mr . ammi inui Iioeecued £ state that he subsequentl y received Mother etter , in which there were several enve-C withthe ' addressescut out andako so . noother sHds of paper written upon with a pencil . One ot £ wasVroduced , and was to the followingretort : " if vou remember , I sent you a polite note some time back , addressed from Walthamstow , which c ™ f e to me by mistake , Bobby . It lays m your SSr to raise my wages . You think 12 s . a week uui i

      enough for us poor fellows in noses , you . uv « je 700 ° a vear Yourself , and keep a coal-shed too . I have been in the office several years , but I sha nt be there much longer , but while I am there I will burn all the mis-sent letters . It is a month now since I had a ' couter' ( a slang name for a sorerei « n ) , and another will just put mo to rights . It I it ten years , I shall laugh at the judge . " This panei-was signed " Cakraft . Evidence was then adduced to prove that the whole of these papers were in the handwriting of the prisoner , and Peake , the Post Office constaWe , also proved that upon searching the prisoner ' s room lie found a number of other letters concealed between the mattress and the bed , and also a button , which had evidently made the impression on the letter sent to the mistress of the school at Waltliamstow . The prisoner , in his defence , told a long rambling story , asserting that the charge had been made against him from spite . .,, „ .,.. „ , 1 The jury returned a verdict of " Guilty , ' , an < l the prisoner was sentenced to foe transported for seven years .

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      DR . M'DOUALL . TO THK EDITOR OF TUB NORTHERN 6 TAR . Sin—I have been a subscriber to the Star a number of years and have taken on active part in Chartist principles . I saw in your last Bumber of the Star that . our faithful and trus friend , Mr . Roberts , contemplates applying for a ' Writ of Error in tne case of Dr . M Douall . on such good and sufficient wounds as can hardly fail to ensure that gentleman's release from the prison tortures to which he has been subjected for so many months . Now , being an ardent admirer of Mr . M'Douall , I wish all my brother Chartists to rouse themselves to action , and

      immediately commence subacrlptifttts in their various districts , to enable Mr . Roberts to commence operations , and not allow the worthy Doctor to remain any longer in the hands of his relentless enemies . Every exertion shall be made on my part in the district to which I belong , and the monieB faithfully forwarded , wherever you or others may suggest . Sincerely hoping all true Chartists will use the sameexertior in their different loealities . s I beg to remain . Sir , your very truly in the good cause , Ralph Bardsi-f . y , Cotton Loom Weaver . Padfield , Glasgow District , Jan , 29 th .

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      THE LAND . TO THE EDITOR OF THB NORTHERN STAR . Sir , —In looking over the columns of the Star , I often see the members located making complaints of distress , and I do not wonder at it , when I see the quantity of land they have to till ; if they , in manyin 8 tances , bad had ' half the quantity they would , have been better off , if they well etuck to it , for I quite agree with Mr . O'Connor , that three-quarterso f an acre is more than any one man can cultivate . If they complain of aot being able to pay the rent , just let them come into Jeraey , aiid there they will find no Land for less than £ 7 an acre , but mucb > above it . and if it be within a mile of St . Helier , it will be £ 12 an acre and upwards . A friend of mine

      occupies six perches less than half-an-acre , and he pays £ 11 pet year , and sends his produce to Cogent Garden . He told me it paid last year , and he expected it would do better this : it is an open piece of ground with scarcely a hedge to it . Wishing to try the soil , I have taken a piece of ground of about two acres , at £ 9 per acre , with not an inch of fence to it , alt of which I must do myself , and only for the year . I treated for an enclosed piece of nearly an acre . It was promised me , but there were so many , applicants for it at £ 12 , that , the owner would have it in advance , for security and interest , so I left it .

      That is how Land is let here , near the town , then if they who are located complain , what must the people here say who give such rents . So great do I find the labour fcr two acres , that had I not a family of four sons and two daughters ,: I would give up two acres of my paid-up shares and be quite satUfied . I think those who complain are over burdened wilh-Land for their me ; in « , and not with rent . Yours most repectfully Daniel Long , Secretary of the Jersey Branch of the National Land Company .

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      MR , CIIADWICK . TO THE EDITOR OF THE NT > HTHEU \ STAR . Sir , —Believing that you will feel pleasure in giving me the opportunity of vindicating my character , or , at least , setting myself right before ' the public , through tho columns of your widely-circulated journal , I take the liberty of laying the following statement before you . I am a young man , and , perhaps , too young to become an agitator ; but , if such an opinion should cause the public to consider me a spy or an informer ,. I think the same reason should cause the public toeonsider nie-teo young to sun * er imprisonment . I am one of those , notwithstanding my extreme youth , who consider that the bulk of / the people are not fairly represented . : >\ s one of the humblest of the people , I felt that I wafc doprived of the undoubted privilege of a freeman , and felt it my duty , in

      common with yourself un < l others , to Openly Oppose tllO system that deprived myself and others ' of those rights , and thus I incurred the displeasure of tho Cotton Corporation of Manchester . The harpies of this liberty-loving body lost no time in consi" -ni : i « - me to a dungeon , as well as many others , who " have Ottcu stood up against despotism . This they did by leading them and me in chains , bound hand and foot , to Liverpool , where I had to remain a month previous to my trial , waiting for bail . During my detention , a rumour haring eropt through my acquaintances in Manchester ( I suppose owing to my youth ) , that I was an informer , and in consequence of such report , for four months previous to the Assizes , I had to bear with the most ban .-faced abuse , vliilc my friends treated mo with ccivuil indignation , for joining people that could use me so

      unkind . Well , Mr . Editor , the Assizes enme , and the world can tell whether I stood in the witness-box or in tlie dock . And I now appeal to the public from my dungeon . I glory it is so ; and I never , for a moment , intended that it should be otherwise . I stood firm against the one-sided and systematic evidence ef the four policemen , and the corrupt per-J « ry of the notorious Ball . And now I suffer with old , faithful , and talented victims , that would do honour to any cause-men who would compel an equal number ef the well-paid State paupers to fly SJrfrt " " thej P rou » d , before the eloquence of their arguments .

      io ™ T f « ?? ' ' assur < 3 dthat this statement ' , '" 0 !/? 1 tUo IturPOse of reconciliation than to K T . ° Conce ; for ' long as I live , neither deter m «/ T' *? ^^ > ils ' ^ <™ toZo from struggling for the liberty of the people . lours , respectfully , Kii-k , J 9 i « r 1 t William Hexrt Cimdtvick . iurkdale Gaol , Jan . Slst , 1849 .

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      JSti M »} ** Y * , that China has undergone SX ? revoJut 1 ^ m its ideas of passive obedience . disturbances have broken out in several provincesbnan-tung among others Education -AH wjl 0 have meditated on the 'overmng of mankind , have been convinced that tne late of empires depends on the education of youth . —Awtotk . ITALY . The Gtnoal Gazette of tho 23 d , publishes the following " PROCLAMATION—LEGATION DB B 0 I . OGXO . " To-morrow the entire Roman people will rise as one man , and save the country . The cannon will hail this happy day , and will remind the population that tlio future destiny of the country depends upon their will . Europe , filled with admiration , will silently behold this grand spectacle—a nation in the centre of Italy , establishing its rights , and creating a firm and stable government , noUvitllstimVmg the snares thai are within , the plots and machinations without ; and thus accomplishing the solemn act which must bring back the regeneration of our whole country . ' " ' Carlo Vv . ku , President . < ( -d 1 T '' Pichat , Lieut .-Coloncl . "Bologna , Jan . 20 , 1 S 4 U . "

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      Februa ry 3 , 1849 , ^ THE NORTHERN STAR 4

      Ifow Keadj. A Xiw Edition Of Mr. O'Cqnkor's Work Oh Small Farms.

      Ifow Keadj . a Xiw Edition of MR . O'CQNKOR'S WORK OH SMALL FARMS .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 3, 1849, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1508/page/4/